Mere Orthodoxy

We are a close-knit team of young Christians who have dedicated the last 15 years to exploring the importance of language and detail in online discussions, all while figuring out how to express our faith in the public sphere. From arts and films to literature, politics, sexuality, and beyond, we believe the Gospel offers valuable insights into every aspect of life, and we see it as genuinely good news. Our inspiration comes from C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, two influential Christian thinkers from the twentieth century. One authored "Mere Christianity," and the other wrote "Orthodoxy." We admire their work so much that we even combined their names as a nod to their legacy. Their insights were not merely theoretical; they were deeply connected to the issues and challenges facing England during their era. Their goal was to showcase how a traditional, faith-centered approach to Christianity could serve as a compelling alternative to the popular ideologies of their time. And they managed to convey these ideas through poetry and children's tales, making their messages accessible and engaging.

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Translating Homer in the 21st Century

2 weeks ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

Homer, The Odyssey. Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn. University of Chicago Press, 2025. $39.00, 560 pp. In the fall semester of the year 2000, I took a seminar on Homer’s Iliad. The math was simple: the Iliad has 24 books, and the semester has a little over 12 weeks. Moving at the pace of two books per week much of the fall, we read the entire epic. In the original Greek. In a building located just steps away from the statue of Homer on the University of Virginia’s legendary Lawn.
Secularist Violence in Modern History: Interview with Thomas Albert Howard

3 weeks ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

In his new book, Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History (Yale University Press, 2025), historian Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard takes the readers on a tour of modern world history to investigate what happens as the world secularizes. Proponents of secularization and outright state atheism in places like the Soviet Union have been asking for a while: what has religion—and especially Christianity—ever done for this world?
Orphics in Our Midst

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

This article was published in the Winter 2025 edition of our print Journal. To read for free online, please Subscribe. If you would like to receive future editions of the print Journal, become a Basic or Solidarity Member today. One winter day near Thessaloniki in 1962, two archaeologists excavating a fourth-century BC Macedonian nobleman’s tomb made a unique and extraordinary find: a papyrus roll.
The Institutional Roots of America’s Political Crisis

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | John Shelton

This article was published in the Winter 2025 edition of our print Journal. To read for free online, please Subscribe. If you would like to receive future editions of the print Journal, become a Basic or Solidarity Member today. The course of American Christianity over the next thirty years—if not the rest of the twenty-first century—will be entirely downstream of James Davison Hunter.
The Case for Changing the Scorecard in Education

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Bob Thune

This article was published in the Winter 2025 edition of our print Journal. To read for free online, please Subscribe. If you would like to receive future editions of the print Journal, become a Basic or Solidarity Member today. Ivan Illich. Deschooling Society. Marion Boyers Publishers: London, 2000. pp. 150. The All-In Podcast routinely sits atop the charts as the top-rated technology podcast in the world.
A Place Where I Found Courage and Peace

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Anna McGraw

“One of the greatest parts about Wheaton is this: there is nothing out there that we cannot talk about in here.”So said Dr. Matthew Milliner, beloved art professor, full of all the eccentricities and wisdom of a man who loves life and loves God, on the first day of my freshman orientation on a hot August afternoon in the year of 2020. I cannot tell you how deeply relieved I was to hear those words as a heavy, anxious weight began to lift from my chest.
Denominations in an Age of Online Over-Exposure

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Trevin Wax

Here’s one of the the under-discussed realities behind the infighting and controversies we see in churches, denominations, and networks today: we’ve yet to learn how to coexist and do ministry together in a digital age. Just start at the local level. One reason there may be disunity in a local congregation is church members are together in person less and yet visible to each other online more.
In Praise of Being Inconvenient

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

One recent night around 2:00 AM, my daughter’s distressed voice, calling for me, jolted me out of deep sleep. Barely awake herself, she was looking for her stuffed doll (named Dolly, obviously), the one without which she cannot sleep, because without clutching it in a very precise way, she cannot suck her thumb. And without sucking her thumb, she cannot get back to sleep. This vicious cycle makes perfect sense in her six-year-old mind, even if it might not in yours.
The Rise of the Right-Wing Exvangelical

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Jake Meador

In their article on the six-way fracturing of evangelicalism, Michael Graham and Skyler Flowers observed that there was a type of left wing exvangelical—a "five" in their schema—who had left the church, but still in some way tried to preserve their proximity to Jesus. This isn't a terribly surprising thing, of course: the attempt to adopt a kind of a la carte spirituality is quite old.
Reimagining Seminary as Neo-Monastic Cohorts

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Trevin Wax

Theological education and pastoral training are in a state of flux. Many seminaries are slashing budgets and laying off faculty in response to declining enrollment. This is just the beginning. All institutions of higher education are bracing themselves for the demographic cliff (the number of high school students across the country is about to decline rapidly). Seminaries anticipate fewer graduates pursuing ministry degrees.